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CBS Sports president fired: David Kenin will be replaced by IMG negotiator Sean McManus.

O WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1996 TELEVISION CBS Sports president fired David Kenin will be replaced by IMG negotiator Sean McManus. By John Nelson ASSOCIATED P PRESS NEW YORK - Once again, the National Football League is up for grabs, and CBS is looking for someone to grab it. It might have found the person in veteran International Management Group negotiator Sean McManus, who apparently will replace David Kenin as CBS Sports president as soon as IMG and CBS can agree on his start -up date. On Tuesday, CBS senior vice president of communications, Gil Schwartz, confirmed Kenin "will be moving on from the presidency of CBS Sports." Schwartz said CBS would not comment on its search for a successor. News of Kenin's dismissal comes 2½ years after he replaced Neal Pilson at the head of a sports department that had lost, in succession, the N NBA, major league baseball and finally the NFL in December 1993. McManus, senior vice president of IMG's television arm, Trans World International, reportedly needs only to sign a contract to complete the move. Sources close to McManus called it a "done deal," although IMG, stunned by its suddenness, would like the transaction to be completed later rather than sooner. Meanwhile, the network's decision to dismiss Kenin comes at a crucial time for TV rights negotiators. Only one more season is left in the NFL's $4.42 billion TV package, and preliminary negotiations for a new one already have begun. As soon as the Super Bowl is over, they will get serious. "There's no question that the NFL is proven to be the lifeblood of a network," said Marty Ehrlich, a former associate of McManus at IMG and now a senior vice president at the media conglomerate Marquee Group. "Sean is a buyer now. He was a seller before, but he was also a vice president at NBC. When a person in that capacity has sat on both ends of the table, you can only think it would make him an extremely qualified individual to spearhead the network's effort." McManus, 42, son of ABC sportscaster Jim McKay, came to IMG from NBC in 1987 and has been involved in rights negotiations for the Olympics and other major TV packages involving golf, baseball, college football and tennis. He is known among co-workers as the "kingpin of big TV negotiations.'
Article from 06 Nov 1996Dayton Daily News(Dayton, OH)
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